22/03/2014 Saturday Sportsday

plenty to pack in to the next 15 minutes, with all the latest sports

news and features. This is Saturday Sportsday.

The sisters setting their sights on success. The gymnasts are hoping

that this month 's British Championships will be a springboard

for their season. Football remembers the players killed during World War

I. A special report from the French battlefields. A quick look at some

of the sports stories making the headlines today. Arsene Wenger takes

charge of his 1000th match of Arsenal Ladies today. His side are

awake to Chelsea in the lunchtime kick-off. We will keep you up to

date with the latest from Stamford Bridge. Andy Murray came from a set

down to beat his opponent and progress to the third round of the

Miami Masters. Ryan Hall scored a first half hat-trick for Leeds

rhinos to go top of the Super League. In Rugby Union 's

premiership, was to have still not won a match in the past year. They

were beaten 13-11. England 's cricketers get their 2020 World Cup

campaign under way. They will be without Luke Wright who was ruled

out earlier this morning with a side strain. He is the third player to

miss the tournament. England go into the game as underdogs, after a run

of poor recent results. Stuart Broad knows the importance of victory

today. I think it is well documented that, as an England side, we tend to

start a series not overly well. That is something we have mentioned in

the changing room which is non-negotiable. With the way the

World Cup is set up, a lot of good teams are not going to make it to

the semifinal. You have to put yourself out there as a front runner

to start with. And there's commentary of that match on Radio 5

live Sports Extra, the game starts at 1:30pm. Now women's golf has a

new star. We reported last week on teenager Charley Hull's first win of

her professional career at a tournament in Morocco. And it seems

she's inspiring the next generation of British female golfers. Jessica

Creighton reports. English teenager, Charley Hull, has won her

first title on the ladies European tour. Charley Hull is the talk of

women's golf. Last year she won the Rookie of the year award. Last week

she won the cup on the ladies European tour, all before her 18th

birthday. I am still 17 and I win. It is fantastic, the best birthday

present I can have. The tour has long featured some of the top

women's professional golfers. Just as she enjoyed great success as an

amateur, so did Lauren Taylor. She was the youngest winner of the

amateur championship at just 17. In the same year she won the BBC Sports

Personality of the Year award. Here, in Morocco, shoot me her first year

as professional was proving more tricky. You have to be a lot more

consistent as a professional. You have to put the hours in and

practice. These payers have to get used to the challenge of life on the

road. I have so many friends in the amateur game. On the tour, you do

not know many people. I think it is just more your idols playing golf

and you are playing with them. She is younger than many of her British

team-mates but she is seen as an inspiration. Sally Watson played

alongside her when they were both parameters. Grabbing up with and

competing with Charley Hull, she has done incredibly well since she

turned professional. Knowing I can compete with them gives me a great

amount of confidence that I can do the same. Some names to watch out

for in the future. Stephanie Slater started swimming as a toddler and as

a teenager hoped her talent would shine on the international stage.

She's now a European record holder and three time medallist at the

World Championships. But she could never have predicted her path to

success as Kate Grey reports. In 2010, Stephanie Slater was one of

Britten 's most promising swimmers. But the home Olympics in her sights,

she was on the brink of achieving her lifetime goal. I learned to swim

when I was three years old. I won three National medals at 16. I was

trying to qualify for London 2012. But her life genetic change during

irregular training session. Following a dive start, she was

unable to force her arm through the water. Did she know, that would be

the end of her Olympic dream. I was training and one day my arm went

numb. I was out of the water for two years, having tests and getting a

diagnosis. I found out I had nerve damage and I cannot swim with that

aren't any more. It was a very hard time. I went back home to my mum, my

dad and my brother and they really supported me. Determined not to let

her condition get the better of her, she had to rebuild her strength

and confidence. I went to the Paralympics as a games maker. When I

went there, it gave me the inspiration to get back into the

pool. She splits her training between Preston and at the National

performance Centre. After winning gold and two silvers at the World

Championship 's last summer, she is one to watch in the build-up to Rio

2016. It is fantastic. We have such an amazing athlete as part of the

team, going forward. She would be a massive part of our team. Not only

has she made the transition into disability sport, she has done it in

style. I got a qualifying time at Leeds. I was like, oh gosh, I can

actually do this! We went to the second trials and I broke the

European record. I still see myself as a swimmer. I do not see myself

any different from what I was before, even though I was swimming

with one arm. Paralympics is my main aim in 2016. Hopefully I can make it

to their. So, the Rio Olympics is the target

for Stephanie Slater, while two British athletes hope those Games

will see them competing for their countryside by side. Becky Downie is

already an established member of the national gymnastics squad and her

younger sister Ellie is hoping to emulate her success. Emily Croydon

has been to meet them. Two sisters on an ordinary night at

home but these are no ordinary sisters.

Becky Downie is Britain 's best female finisher in an all-round

competition. She is back to her best. She made her first world final

last year. At 22, she is relatively old for a gymnast but she is focused

on more success. I would love to try to bring home the Commonwealth bar

title, if I were lucky enough to be selected on the team. My aim is to

keep the routine, Bill consistency and work on the execution so I can

get the best score. -- build the consistency. That is what is driving

me to keep moving forward into hopefully getting that. At 14, her

sister have to keep moving forward into hopefully getting that. At 14,

her sister has two combined. Last year she won gold and silver at the

European youth Olympic Festival. Next year, she will compete as a

senior. Training alongside her sister means Ellie is never short of

support. Having a successful older sibling also has its downside.

Sometimes there is a bit of pressure. When Becky Downie was

little, and she won seven British titles. That is pressure too much

but also an inspiration. At the moment, the girls are

training for the British Championships. For Becky, a crucial

step on the road to this year 's three major competitions. For Ellie,

a chance to shine in her final year as a junior. Is it possible these

sisters could compete together in a British team at the Olympic Games in

Rio? They are very good together. They should both get to the team and

rear. Hopefully we can get gold on the bars for Becky and on the vault

for Ellie. It would be a dream country. This year, four years of

commemoration begins, to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the

First World War. Events are being held across the country and around

the world to remember the millions who died this week, football has

been holding its own memorial. Patrick Gearey has been to the

battlefields of France. It is the Cup Final, April 1914. For the first

time, King George is watching as Burnley play Liverpool. For these

victorious Burnley players and other young men, life would not stay so

carefree. Within months, what would become known as the Great War would

begin. We tend to think of footballers today as being a

different breed somehow. The crop of a century ago ended up as being in

the same place as most young men of that age bracket in northern France,

on the battlefield and, all too often, in cemeteries. A century on

from the start of the war, those in charge of football have come to

remember those whose careers and lives were cut short. You look at

these committees were boys of 20, 19, 2122. They gave up a career in

football and came out here. Some of them were players, somewhat club

officials. They came out to fight in the. Initially, football tried to

play on. They were called greedy and patriotic. Donald Bell was awarded

The Victoria Cross. He did not survive to receive it. Others joined

a football battalion with fans. Hearts sent particularly large

delegations to the front line. Those who transferred seamlessly -- among

those who transferred seamlessly from football field to battlefield

was all to hole. He was a pioneering black footballer and soldier. --

Walter Hull. They should never be forgotten. They showed bravery. It

is for the modern generation to remember them. Hears is now a name

on a wall. The memorial was a brief -- at the memorial was a wreath from

Northampton Town. It is an attempt to remember some enduring heroes.

That's just about it from me for now just time to bring you up to date

with the lunchtime football matches. Chelsea are 2-0 up against Arsenal.

In the Championship, the East Midlands derby has extra

significance with both Derby and Nottingham Forest chasing play off

places. That is it. Goodbye.